WCP Paper Section: Philosophy of Science

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Name	Title of Paper
Vladimir A. Mazilov	About the Methodology of Russian Psychology of Today
Stalya S. Rozova	The Seminar on Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in Novosibirsk as a Way of Preserving Philosophical Traditions
Ludmila S. Sycheva	Methodological Research Programs and Their Role in Cognitional Biology as a Source of Methodological Analogies

Name	Title of Paper
Gregg Alan Davia	Thoughts on a Possible Rational Reconstruction of the Method of "Rational Reconstruction"
Serghey Gherdjikov	Limits of Science
Alexis Jardines	Teoria del Movimiento Unificado: Una lectura epistemologica de los fundamentos de la mecanica
Christopher Luetge	Naturalized Epistemology with Special Reference to Social and Economic Epistemology
Elba del Carmen Riera	Complexity: Philosophical and Epistemological Considerations

Name	Title of Paper
Manuel Comesana	Should Philosophy of Science Exist?
Gustaaf C. Cornelis	Is Popularization of Science Possible?
Anthony Mansueto	Cosmic Teleology and the Crisis of the Sciences
V.V. Mantatov and I. Lambaeva	Science, Development, and Humanity
Spas Spassov	Biological Teleology in Contemporary Science

Name	Title of Paper
Gyorgy Darvas	Ontological Levels and Symmetry Breaking
A.M. Galushkin	Competence of Particular Paradigms in Thermonuclear Technologies
Imre Hronszky	Technological Paradigms
Heisook Kim	Yin and Yang: The Nature of Scientific Explanation in a Culture
Sheldon Richmond	The Two Cultures Problem
Peter B.M. Vranas	Epsilon-Ergodicity and the Success of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Name	Title of Paper
Francisco Flores	Top-Down or Bottom-Up: Explaining Laws in Special Relativity
Vladimir Gamaonov	Relation - Functional Theory of Information
David Gruender	On Explanation: Aristotelian and Hempelean
Norma Silvia Horenstein	Something More on What Explanation Explains
Paul C.L. Tang	The Monoamine Hypothesis, Placebos and Problems of Theory Construction in Psychology, Medicine and Psychiatry
Fritz Wallner	A New Vision of Science

Name	Title of Paper
Anastasios Brenner	Du neopositivisme francais au cercle de Vienne
Andrew N. Pavlenko	Epistemological Turn in European Scientific Rationality
Daniel Videla	The Problem of Science in Heidegger's Thought

Name	Title of Paper
Maarten Franssen	The Not-so Trivial Truth of Methodological Individualism
David Gruenberg	Bootstrapping and the Problem of Testing Quantitative Theoretical Hypotheses
Jean Leroux	Les Theories de L'Image de Helmholtz et de Hertz et les Motifs de Carnap dans L'Aufbau
James Logue	Models and Measurements: Some Parallels
Volker Peckhaus	The Heuristic Function of the Axiomatic Method

Name	Title of Paper
Michael Akeroyd	Laudans, Popper and the Theory of Migration of Continents
Theo A. F. Kuipers	Epistemological Positions in the Light of Truth Approximations
Lorenzo Magnani	Abduction and Hypothesis Withdrawal in Science
Robert Camp Miner	Lakatos and MacIntyre on Incommensurability and the Rationality of Theory Change
Erdinç Sayan	The Bayesian Theory of Confirmation and Idealizations and Approximations in Science
Pawel Zeidler	Theoretical Model, Representation, Experience

Name	Title of Paper
Lucia d'Assuncao and Claudia Ines Mora	Science and Aesthetic Paradigm
John Losee	Philosophy of Science and the Theory of Natural Selection
Claudia Ines Mora and Lucia d'Assuncao	Richard Rorty: Desde los Juegoe del Lenguaje hacia una Cultura Posfilosofica
Idelfonso Murillo	The Ethical and Religious Challenge of Present Science
Gregor Schiemann	Ohne Telos und Substanz. Grenzen des naturwissenschaftlichen Kausalitaetsverstandnisses.
Friedel Weinert	When The Scientist Turns Philosopher

Name	Title of Paper
David Boersema	Inductivism, Naturalism, and Metascientific Theories
Alexandru Giuculescu	Order versus Chaos or The Ghost of Indeterminacy
Manuel Liz	New Physical Properties
Bozhidar Palyuschev	Physics and Consciousness
Victor Suchar	The Status of Classical Mechanics in Modern Physics

Name	Title of Paper
Armando Cintora	Critical Comments to Laudan's Axiology
Khristos C. Nizamis	A DNA Account of Propositions (as events): Dummett, Nagarjuna, Aristotle
George Shpenkov and Leonid Kreidik	Philosophy of Contents-Form and Coulomb's Law

Name	Title of Paper
Assen I. Dimitrov	Virtual Information Systems
Hernan Miguel	La Primera Revelacion: Cuando Lo Teorico Se Hace Visible
Pierre Nzinzi	L'erreur: pedagogue de l'humanite
Walter Riofrio Rios	About the Origin of Functional Properties
Lawrence H. Starkey	Particle and Astro-Physics Challenge to Kant's Phenomenalism

Name	Title of Paper
I.S. Cehmistro	Quantum Holism as the Consequence of the Relativistic Approach to the Problem of Quantum Theory Interpretation
Jagdish Hattiangadi	Algebra as Thought Experiment
Yury Iv. Kulakov	The Search for Scientific Truth Leads to God
Alberta Rebaglia	A 'Non-Classical' Reality: An Epistemological Approach to Quantum Mechanical Description of Nature
Yang Yaokun	The Rationality of Scientific Discovery: Aspect of the Theory of Creation

Name	Title of Paper
Jose E. Burgos	The Relational Nature of Species Concepts
Arjuna De Zoysa	Change and Reality
Makoto Katsumori	Bohr's Early Conception of Complementarity
Hector A. Palma	Polemica Imagination entre Popper y Kuhn sobre el progreso de la ciencia segun un punto de vista evolucionista
Ana Elisa Spielberg	Werner Heisenberg: Reflections on Pragmatism and Positivism
Emil Visnovsky, Vaclav Cernik, and Jozef Vicenik	Historical Types of Rationality